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Report: Met Shames Visitors Into Donating

Museum entrance fee is supposed to be voluntary.

Tell Thomas Crowne about this one. The $25 admission fee at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art is really a suggested donation, but a former security guard tells the New York Post that staff shames visitors into paying the full price and even threatened to forcibly remove those who didn’t pay. The former employee, who requested anonymity, said he plans to provide evidence in a multimillion-dollar lawsuit brought against the museum by visitors who claim they were tricked into paying the voluntary $25 entrance fee. The former employee, who worked at the Met from 2007 to 2011, insists he does not have an ax to grind with the museum but rather because the management feels “the public is a cash cow.”